Entry Level Machine Learning Engineer (Remote - Canada)

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

At Yelp, we’re dedicated to delivering the best search results by leveraging cutting-edge techniques in machine learning, data mining, and backend engineering. Our engineers play a key role in improving search ranking, optimizing search data pipelines, and unlocking new search capabilities by leveraging LLMs and Yelp's trusted business content. Their work directly impacts millions of users by enabling smarter, more intuitive search capabilities that help people discover the best local businesses with ease.

The Search Quality team is looking for an ML engineer to drive system improvements through rapid prototyping, testing, and scaling the next generation of Search. This role involves researching innovative methods to further enhance the quality of our search results. You’ll work closely with driven and experienced engineers to orchestrate a seamless development, testing, and shipping experience that will help us bring our search capabilities to the next level.

If you have a passion for solving complex ranking challenges, scaling search infrastructure, and driving innovation in search relevance, we’d love to have you on board!

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

• Conduct end-to-end analyses—from data preparation using SQL or Python, to statistical modeling, to generating and presenting business insights.
• Work with large and complex datasets.
• Support the development and deployment of projects involving machine learned models for offline, batch-based data products as well as models deployed to online, real-time services.
• Productionize and automate model pipelines within Python and Java services.
• Prototype incremental improvements to existing Search Quality ML systems as well as novel approaches with LLMs.

What it takes to succeed:

• Strong coding skills in Python or equivalent (Java, C++).
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals, engineering, and infrastructure best practices.
• The curiosity to uncover promising solutions to new problems, and the persistence to carry your ideas through to an end goal.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest AI technologies and trends.
• Experience with machine learning using packages such as TensorFlow, Spark MLlib, XGBoost, Sklearn, etc. is a plus.

What you'll get:

• Compensation range is $85,000-122,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488.

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